Union County man indicted in child-porn case

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Nov 16, 2012 at 12:01 AMNov 16, 2012 at 2:03 AM

A Union County man was charged with coercing a minor and production of child pornography in an indictment by a federal grand jury today. The indictment states that Justin S. Mote, 33, enticed a 12-year-old minor girl he met online into sexual acts and convinced her to send him nude photos of herself.

Kathy Lynn Gray, The Columbus Dispatch

A Union County man was charged with coercing a minor and production of child pornography in an indictment by a federal grand jury today.

The indictment states that Justin S. Mote, 33, enticed a 12-year-old minor girl he met online into sexual acts and convinced her to send him nude photos of herself. The coercion charge is punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison to a maximum of life in prison.The other three charges are production of child pornography, attempted production of child pornography and interstate travel for child exploitation.

Mote was charged in October in federal court with producing child pornography in connection with the 12-year-old.

He pleaded guilty Oct. 24 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to one count of importuning for setting up a sexual rendezvous with a 15-year-old girl. That charge was filed after he posted an online advertisement for a “young female to have a hot time” and a detective with the county’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force answered the ad.

Mote was arrested when he arrived for the rendezvous, set up when the detective pretended to be a 15-year-old girl.

In the federal case, investigators say Mote met a 12-year-old girl online and visited her in Pennsylvania and Connecticut this year. He had sexual contact with her at least once and received nude photos of her, according to court documents.

Mote has been sentenced to a year in prison on the Franklin County charge.

The new federal charge carries a 15- to 30-year prison sentence. According to the original complaint, Motes works at Moriroku Technology North America in Marysville.